Guidebook helpful resource for Arkansas outdoorsmen

Arkansas hunters are encouraged to pick up a copy of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s 2013-14 Arkansas Hunting Guidebook.

The publication answers many questions hunters have regarding hunting regulations in the state, and it includes several helpful forms.

Chief among them are the six game tags that can be found on the inside of the back cover. These tags are needed by hunters without regular licenses, meaning hunters older than 65 or younger than 16. Hunters in either of those categories are encouraged to clip out at least three of the tags and carry them with them while they are in the field.

The guidebook also includes a summary of rules changes put into effect since last year and a permission to hunt card. On private land, getting verbal permission from the landowner is usually OK but not always. Hunters are encouraged to get the permission to hunt card filled out and signed by the landowner to remove any doubt.

There is also a form for transferring fish or wildlife. The form is essential if anglers or hunters give someone fish or game they have taken and it puts them over the daily limit for a particular species.

The guidebook also comes in handy if outdoorsmen are hunting or fishing away from their normal areas. Different zones have different regulations in many cases. For deer hunters, wildlife management areas and national wildlife refuges are separate zones and hunting regulations may be different from zone to zone.

The guidebook is free and small enough to fit into most pockets. It is available wherever licenses are sold or at any AGFC office.

Sports, Pages 37 on 09/22/2013

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